UK POP CHART HISTORY - AUGUST 1972

Gilbert O' Sullivan's 'Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day' manages to re-enter this week's top 20 at number 19 after slipping out of the chart last week.
The only actual new entry to this week's chart comes in at number 20, and happens to be the debut 7 inch single from Electric Light Orchestra. ELO was initially a side project for the three remaining members of The Move. The debut album, from which '10538 Overture' was lifted, was actually released at the end of 1971, and at this point had failed to chart. Despite this, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan had, by now, decided to abandon The Move completely in order to concentrate their efforts on ELO. Amazingly, this decision was taken while The Move's final single 'California Man' was enjoying top 20 success.
Now that's what I call, 'quitting while you're ahead'.

TOP 20 SINGLES W/E August 5th 1972

TW

LW

SONG TITLE

ARTIST

1

1

Puppy Love

Donny Osmond

2

6

School's Out

Alice Cooper

3

2

Sylvia's Mother

Dr Hook And The Medicine Show

4

5

Seaside Shuffle

Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs

5

4

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

The Partridge Family

6

3

Rock And Roll - Parts 1 & 2

Gary Glitter

7

12

Silver Machine

Hawkwind

8

7

I Can See Clearly Now

Johnny Nash

9

8

Circles

The New Seekers

10

17

Automatically Sunshine

The Supremes

11

19

Popcorn

Hot Butter

12

10

Starman

David Bowie

13

9

Mad About You

Bruce Ruffin

14

20

My Guy

Mary Wells

15

13

Join Together

The Who

16

15

Betcha By Golly Wow

The Stylistics

17

11

Little Willy

The Sweet

18

16

Take Me Bak Ome

Slade

19

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Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day

Gilbert O' Sullivan

20

-

10538 Overture

Electric Light Orchestra

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